“On the broad street in the Hakushima district, naked burned cadavers are particularly numerous. Among them are the wounded who are still alive. A few have crawled under the burned-out autos and trams. Frightfully injured forms beckon to us and then collapse.” – German Jesuit missionary<\/p>\n
“I had the feeling that all the human beings on the face of the earth had been killed off and only the five of us were left behind in an uncanny world of the dead… I saw several people plunging their heads into a half broken water tank and drinking the water… When I was close enough to see inside the tank I said, ‘Oh!’ out loud and instinctively drew back. What I had seen in the tank were the faces of monsters reflected from the water dyed red with blood. They had clung to the side of the tank and plunged their heads in to drink and there in that position they had died. From their burned and tattered middy blouses I could tell that they were high school girls, but there as not a hair left on their heads; the broken skin of their burned faces was stained bright red with blood. I could hardly believe that these were human faces.” – Schoolboy<\/p>\n “Streetcars were standing at Kawaya-Cho and Kamiya-Cho and inside were dozens of bodies, blackened beyond recognition. I saw fire reservoirs filled to the brim with dead people who looked as though they had been boiled alive… In one reservoir there were so many dead people there wasn’t enough room for them to fall over. They must have died sitting in the water.” – Doctor<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/sub-buzz-2347-1596735343-1.jpg\")
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